Why, she nursed every sick pauper in St.Croix as tenderly as she did me.

She is right to put me back in my place before I have made an idiot of myself!" So the convalescent gentleman became moody, and silent and generally disagreeable; and Grace was the only one who guessed at his feelings and was sorry for him.

But he grew well in spite of hidden trouble, and began to think of what he was to do in the future.
"I'll go back to Montreal next week, I think," he said to his sister; "now that the fever has gone, it won't pay to stay here.

If I don't get on in Montreal, I'll try New York." Man proposes, etc.

That evening's mail brought him a letter that materially altered all his plans.